John DemcoICANN Meets This Week in Costa Rica – ICANN is meeting this week in San José, Costa Rica. Applications for new gTLDs are currently being accepted, and various aspects of the new gTLD program will be discussed during the week. A sampling of other topics includes WHOIS, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement, Domain Name System Security…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for March 14th, 2012 has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the…
John DemcoHere is a selection of recent items: ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has issued “SSAC Report on Dotless Domains” [pdf]. A “dotless domain” is a domain name consisting of a single label. The possible introduction of new gTLDs has raised the possibility of such labels appearing alone, e.g. in URLs or email addresses.…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for March 7th, 2012 has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for February 29th, 2012 has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John DemcoHere is a selection of recent items: As part of its planned implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .CA domain, CIRA has released a DNSSEC Practice Statement (DPS). The DPS “provides an operational outline of all the details on how CIRA plans to develop, maintain and manage DNSSEC deployment”. CIRA is…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for February 15th, 2012 has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John DemcoRobert Herjavec To Headline Canadian Internet Forum – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced that the keynote presentation at the 2012 Canadian Internet Forum (CIF) will be delivered by Robert Herjavec, business leader and one of the stars of CBC’s the Dragon’s Den and ABC’s Shark Tank. Also, a panel on the future…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for February 8th, 2012 has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Garrett SaundryThe Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is in the midst of a public consultation http://idnconsultation.ca on the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in the .CA domain. Specifically, CIRA is proposing to support the use of French characters in .CA domain names. After making an initial proposal and conducting an extensive consultation in 2011, CIRA…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for February 1st, 2012 has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John DemcoCIRA To Host 2012 Canadian Internet Forum – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced that the 2012 Canadian Internet Forum in-person event will take place on Monday, February 27 in Ottawa. There is no cost for participation, and registrations are now being accepted. New gTLD Application Process Passes One-Week Mark – ICANN reports…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for January 25th, 2012 has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Cybele NegrisThe Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has again launched its award program celebrating .CA websites that benefit the lives of Canadians. Launched January 9, 2012, the .CA Impact Awards recognizes “.CA websites that make a difference” across four categories: 1. Public Sector and Not-for-Profit – Acknowledging a government, NGO, or association whose website or application…
Cybele NegrisToday, January 12, 2012 marks the day ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) starts accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This process has been heavily debated amongst the internet community at large as well as within the ICANN board but was approved by ICANN in 2011 at its meeting in…
